The Game of Cashflow

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[mweiss]

The highest income earners are paid less frequently than the lowest.

When a billionaire sells stock, it's a process that's been in the making sometimes for years.

Compare that to someone who is paid daily.

[GriffinThomasMFCEO]

This dudes video editing team is second to none 🤯

[ShingleSlingers]

College may be nearly useless now, but education, as a whole is always a good thing

[JamesBond-wvxz]

I still feel like the caveats aren’t being shared in this video. For example, working at a job providers you with experiences that are greatly beneficial and can open up doors and networking opportunities that wouldn’t necessarily exist in a 4-year university. In today’s market of entrepreneurship, that’s likely more important.

[Rashean_Graham]

Good point, I'd argue lower earning trades open the door to wealth when you take your skill and start a business.

[Sigh]

Alex could you make a video on how to set boundaries in relationships

[timbona]

Learning and earning aren’t mutually exclusive activities.

[MichaelJanzer]

My parents made us go to college when we played that game, and for the longest time I believed it was illegal to not go to college haha

[idomendelson]

You said there are two options. What if I want to go to the military and become an entrepreneur and start a business at the same time? The thing is I would have 3 years of Air Force training and another like 4-5 years of actually serving as a pilot. I’m afraid that if I don’t go to the Air Force I will miss out and if I don’t start a business after high school I will miss out too.

[zshmcyu]

He mentioned the name of a game, displayed monopoly and was talking about the game called life.

[darylbrown]

Im starting a college course in business, access ro HND to be precise, is this a waste of time Alex?

[knudsrensen]

>Why does the video show the Monopoly game instead of the Cashflow game.

[softwareking]

I am a Yorkshire Bloke and I am pretty good at talking bol....cks for money as well, LOL

[gwtl]

hmm feels like nothing really was said

[isaiahk]

Dude referenced Cashflow, showed monopoly, and explained Life. Not to be a board game snob but…

[shadowtemple]

Is there a game called cash flow cause ive never heard of it and your game looks liks monopoly

[audio]

Wheres your nose bandaid. How can i trust your input if you're not micro optimizing your life 24-7

[kaushikvsmaniyan]

College today is overvalued, not undervalued